E C Graham Belford Charitable Settlement

Analysis

E C Graham Belford Charitable Settlement is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in October 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, E C Graham Belford Charitable Settlement reported income of £149k and spending of £234k, spending 157% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £95k to £149k (+57%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 204% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, E C Graham Belford Charitable Settlement sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Imp Trust (£149k), Unite the Union Benevolent Fund (£149k) and The Helen Roll Charity (£149k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.